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NI Paper Review: Germany Jailing, Terrorist Snowman

NI paper review: Germany jailing and terrorist snowman by Niall Glynn BBC News NI



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26 October 2017



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The arrest of an IRA man in Germany and racist attacks on Syrian refugees in Belfast and the snowman of a terrorist appear in the papers of Thursday.



The front pages of the Irish News, Daily Mirror, Belfast Telegraph, and News Letter all feature Declan O'Neill Declan O'Neill, an Belfast doctor from Belfast.



Mr. O'Neill is accused of the murder of his mother 51-year-old Anne O'Neill at the weekend.



Mrs O'Neill was killed at her parents' house in Belfast's south's Finaghy area.



Three papers show photographs of Mr O'Neill smiling with the woman he is accused of murdering.



The Irish News' lead story is a plea by a family that fled war-torn Syria four year ago to stop the racist attacks.



Nabeha Arnous and Feras her husband, have four daughters. They claim that their house on Iris Street, off the Springfield Road, has been targeted by stone-throwing youngsters in the last eight months.



Mrs Arnous reports that youths were in the house on one occasion to yell insults. On Friday night the house was attacked with stones. the house.



"I would suggest that you don't hurt anyone. Please stop it," she says.



The headline of the News Letter is "Germany can imprison IRA men, so why wouldn't they?"



Ulster Unionist MLA Doug Beattie was reacting to the four-year sentence handed down to James Anthony Oliver Corry over a 1996 mortar attack on the UK military barracks in Germany.



Mr. Beattie said he was "staggered" by the "scandalous sentence" and was "astonished" at the severity of the sentence. However, he praised Germany for having persevered in seeking justice through the courts.



He also said that the British government should follow suit and stop being weak.



Belfast Telegraph reveals the pace of the process of planning.



It claims that an expert from Scotland has been brought in to sort out "Belfast's planning mess".



Jim Mackinnon "has been parachuted into writing a high level review of the operations of the city council following complaints from developers who are understood be frustrated by how long it takes city hall to process applications", it states.



Christmas decorations are appearing in many shops as winter draws near.



A DUP MP, however, condemned the "obscene" display in a Londonderry building used by a dissident republican groups - as seen in The Belfast Telegraph - as offensive.



A snowman with a rocket launcher and a message "wishing you a joyful Christmas" is visible in the windows of Junior McDaid House in the city of Dublin, where the Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association is headquartered.



Gregory Campbell, DUP's Gregory Campbell tells the newspaper that the majority of people see Christmas as a family holiday and republicans are trying to make it synonymous with terror.



The Irish News and Daily Mirror both report that Hazel Stewart, a double murderer, was ordered by the High Court to return insurance money she claimed after killing her husband.
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Following an investigation by the National Crime Agency, the move will see her family's current home sold.



It is rare for a week to go by without another auction of Titanic memorabilia. However, very few of them show the iceberg that was responsible for the tragedy.



However, hundreds of photographs of the aftermath of the tragedy - some showing the iceberg - are part of a collection being auctioned at the Remarkable Rarities auction in Boston.



Louis M Ogden, a socialite who was aboard the RMS Carpathia when the tragedy unfolded, snapped the photos.



The Belfast Telegraph also published the story.



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The Belfast Telegraph says that some of Northern Ireland's best-known landmarks are being recreated with new silk pocket squares.



It's a joint venture of tailor Christopher Suitor, and artist Stephen Whalley.



Images include the Dark Hedges and the Harland and Wolff cranes as well as Portballintrae.



Don't be surprised if your loved ones buys you a gift as a Christmas gift.


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